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,UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

DANIEL o. STOVEB, OF FREEPORT, ILL., AssIcNoR To WASHBURN a MOEN MANUFACTURING O MPANY, or WORCESTER, MAss.

REEL FOR COILING WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,805, dated February 24, 11880.

Application filed September 12, 1879.

'To all whom it may concern and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a top Or plan view of one of my said improved automatic reels; and

Fig.2 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a

central vertical section through the reels and other parts of the machine, taken on line AB, Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by arrow 1 of l the same figure.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will-proceed to describe it more in detail.

This invention is an improvement on that for which Letters Patent were granted to me September 2, 1879, N 0. 219,124.

In the drawings, 0 G represent the reels of the machine, which are provided with rod coiling and holding arms a a.

Reel 0 is secured upon the end of a horizontal shaft, D, which is titted to turn at one end in a suitable bearing formed in standard E, and at the other end in a hollow shaft or tube, F.

Reel 0 is secured upon the outer end of hollow shaft or tube F, which is fitted to turn in a suitable bearing formed in standard G.

By the above described arrangement it will be seen that each reel, 0 Or 0, may be rotated ishing rolls of the rolling-mill, passes through a swinging guide-tube, J, and strikes a locking-piece, b, hinged to the front end of tube J, and held down by spring 0, and throwing it out from notch d allows the spring 0 to draw guide-tube J in against shoulder fof the guidetube supporting-piece K, as indicated by full lines, Fig. 1, whereby the wire rod will be guided directly upon the reel-arms a of reel 0, as indicated by line Pulleys H and I, being arranged side by side, can be driven by a single belt, and after reel G'has received its cell of wire rod the belt can be shipped to pulley I, and reel 0 put in motion, and guide-tube J lifted up and swung to the other side, audits swinging look-piece b allowed to catch against the notch 11 On the other end of supporting-piece K, whereby, when the wire rod passes through guide-tube J in this new position, catch-piece b will be thrown from notch 61, when spring 6 will draw guide-arm J against shoulder f of supportingpiece K, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1, so that the wire rod will be drawn and guided into the position indicated byline 9, whereby it will be coiled upon arms a, of reel 0, thus givingtime for the attendants to remove the 

